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Kaplan, Howard – Social Education, 2013
Fifty years ago, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." In exploring the story of the events behind the essay, and the Supreme Court case that resulted, "Walker v. Birmingham", 399 U.S. 307 (1967), educators will find a pedagogically powerful lens through which to review the seminal…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Social Studies, Civil Rights, Racial Segregation
Holladay, Jennifer – Southern Poverty Law Center (NJ1), 2009
When Morris Dees was a young man in Alabama, the law said that black people couldn't drink from the same water fountain as white people, or sit at the same lunch counter. Back then, the government created and sanctioned divisions between human beings. The Civil Rights Movement changed all of that, of course, and ended state-mandated apartheid in…
Descriptors: United States History, Civil Rights, Racial Segregation, High School Seniors